Tag Archives: KStuff

Since we’re done with files… Alright, milk? Check. Spam? Check. Eggs? Check. What was I supposed to buy as well? Am I missing something? Oh no! Aunt Tillie is coming today! Ever felt like that before? Tired after a whole day and need to buy some basic groceries and not be angry you forgot that… Continue reading »

File handling was always a topic, but it’s the cloud what made it even more prominent. Now everyone is crazy about sync and sharing even if they have no idea what it is and what exactly it buys them. I’ll be brief on the “migration” part in this episode since this requires the least setting… Continue reading »

Mail and contacts consist of my personal communications powerhouse and at first it was all I needed. But suddenly my needs stared growing: I was in the middle of migrating the two mentioned components when I noticed I’ve lost some events from my horizon and decided it was time for an upgrade. Imagine you have… Continue reading »

During the last episodes I went through the steps of migrating mail from Gmail to Kolab Now. I’m actually describing everything in a different order than it was done: the first thing I attacked and mostly succeed at were contacts. If you’re here just for the instructions on how to import contacts into Kolab Now… Continue reading »

In the last installment I described how to prepare and perform a mail migration from Gmail to Kolab. Now it’s time for some finishing touches. The Archive Kolab has a “proper” archive in the old fashioned sense: a separate folder where you put your mail. This contrasts with Gmails paradigm of a “stack” where archiving… Continue reading »

Short recap: in the previous installment I described some tips and best practices on preparing your mailboxes for migration. Oh, and before we begin: I GIVE NO WARRANTIES. EVERYTHING YOU DO IS ON YOUR OWN RISK. Using imapsync Once the source mailbox is freed from all the layers of dust we can begin the migration… Continue reading »

Before I begin, I’d like to recommend this series of articles. I borrowed many of the ideas described there, especially about mail migration. In the last entry I stated that I had the following components to migrate from Gmail to Kolab: Mail; Address book; Calendar; Tasks; Files; Notes. My migration plan consisted of lots of… Continue reading »

In the last part I discussed the problems with various mail providers of the „free” sort. You get a service without paying money, but you get ads shoved in your face and privacy gets compromised. And while Google went to great lengths to make the ads in Gmail as little intrusive as they could, I… Continue reading »

Finally I’ve found a moment to update my openSUSE to Tubleweed. Yesterday I made changes to the system as described here. Today I just ran: zypper dup and waited for 2k+ packages to get updated. The whole process took less than an hour and I’m happy with the result. /tangodelta

Just a short one this time. After my poor OpenSUSE died and got reinstalled the only irritating thing left was the Wallet. It kept raising an error and didn’t accept my password, so I deleted the wallet and created another one, named creds. When I tried to configure my mail agent again, the Wallet system… Continue reading »